Thanks again for your support Brian - it's an excellent reference to
have the archive there for the searching. And of course, thanks for
hosting it free.
Marty
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Ah, yes. ?The flash of genius finally hits, then it's immediately followed
> by a dope slap! ?:-)
>
> Been there. ?Done that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> I've been running the LUG using the same software (MHonArc) for 18 years,
>> and for 18 years the job of closing out a digest volume and opening a new
>> one has been tedious.
>>
>> Today I closed out volume 44 and began a new volume. Part of closing out
>> a volume is regenerating all of the indexes so that instead of saying
>>
>> ? Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - )
>>
>> they say
>>
>> ? Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - Jun 2010)
>>
>> Not a big deal, but it is a deal. Somehow, for 18 years I have failed to
>> realize that if I delete one message from the archive after closing the
>> volume, the software will automatically regenerate the index to close it
>> up around the now-gone message.
>>
>> I close out volumes rarely enough that I have written down the procedure
>> and follow it from written notes notes every time. I have just added to
>> my written procedure these steps:
>>
>> ?* Add a junk message to the archive
>> ?* Edit the index configuration file to have the truth about dates
>> ?* Delete the junk message that you just added.
>>
>> Whew. I think I'll use the extra 2 hours that this has given me to go
>> take pictures of something.
>>
>> Brian Reid
>> LUG Saloon Keeper
>>
>>
>>
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